“- Leo Getz: This is the best part, okay? You make a tax deduction on interest payments you don't even make! Am I an innovator? Am I a genius?
- Martin Riggs: You're a swindler!
- Roger Murtaugh: Cheat!
- Leo Getz: Everyone cheats a little bit... look at the Pentagon!”

Joe Pesci - Leo Getz
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“- Max Conners: I've assumed my husband always filed the tax return.
- Gloria Vogal: Which one?”
Sigourney Weaver - Max Conners
Anne Bancroft - Gloria Vogal

“Are you telling me you can speak six languages and fly a jetliner but you don't know how to file a tax return?”

Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo

“If you tell the government they will take forty percent of it. Forty percent! Do you know how much that is? That's nearly all of it.”

Lewis McGibbon - Anthony

“Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.”
Kim Krizan - Ms. Stroud